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Each portfolio is led by one or more government ministers who are members of the federal parliament, appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister. [1] As of December 2023, there are 1,334 government entities reportable to the Australian Government Organisations Register. This includes: [2] [3]
The name of the government in the Constitution of Australia is the "Government of the Commonwealth". [15] This was the name used in many early federal government publications. [16] However, in 1965 Robert Menzies indicated his preference for the name "Australian Government" in order to prevent confusion with the new Commonwealth of Nations. [17]
ABC Kids is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's part-time channel, broadcasting shows between the hours of 4am and 7:30pm for children 6 years old and younger, including an upper preschool audience. [1] It shares the same bandwidth as ABC Family which broadcasts outside ABC Kids' scheduled hours.
Unlike its predecessor, the ABC Kids channel, ABC Me would run from 6 am to 9 pm each day, and feature drama, comedy, animation and music. [18] On 22 April 2009, the Labor government announced its commitment to the proposal as part of its response to the Australia 2020 Summit conducted in 2008, [19] and ABC Me was launched on 4 December. [20]
Weekly video gaming and technology programme Good Game was launched on 19 September 2006, becoming one of the first programmes in its genre to be broadcast on free-to-air television in Australia. [9] Similarly in the same year, programmes produced included Australia Wide, Short and Curly, dig tv and Late Night Legends.
Pauline Hanson's Please Explain is an Australian animated conservative political satire web series that is produced by Stepmate Studios, a Melbourne-based production company, [3] for Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a right-wing populist political party in Australia founded and led by Pauline Hanson.
The Barton ministry; the 1st Australian federal ministry, 1901. The Second Fisher ministry; the 8th Australian federal ministry, 1910. The First Bruce ministry; the 16th Australian federal ministry, 1923. The First Curtin ministry; the 29th Australian federal ministry, 1941. The Fifth Menzies ministry; the 35th Australian federal ministry, 1951.
The Australian Constitution sets down the powers and responsibilities of many of the institutions of the Australian Commonwealth. However, the prime minister, the cabinet and the other principles of responsible government are not explicitly mentioned in the document, along with most of the realities of exercise of executive power.